LINCOLN A Novel

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 657 pages; Signed by Not signed; Brown cloth hard covers with gold lettering on front and spine. Spine is straight, binding tight. Gift inscription on front end page. Pages are clean and slightly vanilla. No dust jacket.

From Publisher:

Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee's armies beat at the gates. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. The cast of characters is almost Dickensian: politicians, generals, White House aides, newspapermen, Northern and Southern conspirators, amiably evil bankers, and a wife slowly going mad. Vidal's portrait of the president is at once intimate
and monumental, stark and complex, drawn with the wit, grace, and authority of one of the great historical novelists.
With a new Introduction by the author.

Product Info

ISBN: 0394528956

ISBN-13: 9780394528953

Publisher: Random House

Year: 1984

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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